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Functional Analysis of the PCCA and PCCB Gene Variants Predicted to Affect Splicing
Ist Teil von
International journal of molecular sciences, 2021-04, Vol.22 (8), p.4154
Ort / Verlag
Switzerland: MDPI AG
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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MEDLINE
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It is estimated that up to one-third of all variants causing inherited diseases affect splicing; however, their deleterious effects and roles in disease pathogenesis are often not fully characterized. Given their prevalence and the development of various antisense-based splice-modulating approaches, pathogenic splicing variants have become an important object of genomic medicine. To improve the accuracy of variant interpretation in public mutation repositories, we applied the minigene splicing assay to study the effects of 24 variants that were predicted to affect normal splicing in the genes associated with propionic acidemia (PA)-
and
. As a result, 13 variants (including one missense and two synonymous variants) demonstrated a significant alteration of splicing with the predicted deleterious effect at the protein level and were characterized as spliceogenic loss-of-function variants. The analysis of the available data for the studied variants and application of the American College of Medical Genetics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) guidelines allowed us to precisely classify five of the variants and change the pathogenic status of nine. Using the example of the PA genes, we demonstrated the utility of the minigene splicing assay in the fast and effective assessment of the spliceogenic effect for identified variants and highlight the necessity of their standardized classification.